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Poet: Shel Silverstein (Shel Silverstein Art)
Poem: God's Wheel
Volume: A Light in the Attic
Year: Published/Written in 1981
Comment 30 of 30, added on September 19th, 2009 at 9:48 AM.
Even as a kid, I totally got it. We say we love Jesus. Some of us go to church and even do things for God, but when offered the chance to steer our own lives vs. letting God, we somehow fail to desire Him as much as we say we do. We're like Cain...talking to God, sacrificing to God and even being decent people. But pride and arrogance take root and with sin comes death. In his case, it was a physical death. In ours, it's often times a spiritual death.
MikeSchroeder from United States
Comment 29 of 30, added on June 25th, 2007 at 12:13 PM.
Poetry is always somewhat subjective, even when the author has intended meaning when writing. So, to state simply, Silverstein's poem "is an insult to God"; to Mike. However, it is not an insult to God; to me.
Futhermore, the struggle that occurs between Silverstein's 'God and I', in this poem, is not too far removed from Jacob's wrestling match with the angel of the Lord, of Genesis 32:24-30.
God blessed Jacob because Jacob struggled with him.
God expects us to struggle with him. God blesses us, only so long as we stay in the struggle, just like Jacob.
DS Martin from United States
Comment 28 of 30, added on April 26th, 2007 at 5:24 PM.
you people don't take it so serious because you don't have jesus christ in your heart or in your life. This poem to me is about him watching over us and not letting someone else take over and when all they are is worried about other things. Think with your hearts not your minds. You would get it alot faster.
shannon from United States
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Even as a kid, I totally got it. We say we love Jesus. Some of us go to church and even do things for God, but when offered the chance to steer our own lives vs. letting God, we somehow fail to desire Him as much as we say we do. We're like Cain...talking to God, sacrificing to God and even being decent people. But pride and arrogance take root and with sin comes death. In his case, it was a physical death. In ours, it's often times a spiritual death.
MikeSchroeder from United States